Cultivator tongue and shovel



(No Model.) l

J. M. SANDERS.

GULTIVATOR TONGUB AND SHOVEL.

No. 355,104. Patented/Deo. 28, 1886.

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JAMES M. SANDERS, OF MORRISVILLE, OHIO.

CULTIVATOR TONGUE AND SHOVEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of'Letters Patent No. 355,104, dated December 28, 1886.

Application liled August 31, 1886. SerialNo. 212,307. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that l, JAMES M. SANDERS, of Morrisville, in the county of Clinton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Iniprovement in Oultivator Tongues andA Shovels, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a cultivatorshovel, forming a combined tongue and shovel of peculiar construction and capable of being adj usted laterally fronla iiXed center or pivot, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in allthe figures.

Figure l represents a side or edge view of a combined tongue .and shovel, together with the standard of the plow or machine to which it is attached. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is an under view thereof; and Figs. 4 and 5 are transverse sections upon the lines .rx andy y, respectively.

A and B indicate the blade, the portion marked A more particularly representing the tongue part and B more particularly what may be termed the shovel part thereof. The one side, b, of the blade is made straight throughout its length from c to d, and is beveled on its under surface, as at c, to make said side or edge a cutting one. This construction adapts the blade to first plowings. The lower or point end,f, of the blade from d to g is made to form an acute angle with the edge b, and is also beveled ,on its under surface, as at e', to give it a cutting-edge. This angular end construction near the edge b serves to work the earth closer to the plant, and the whole of said end' from d to g being made slanting, as shown, exerts a forcing action toward or from the plant. The other side or edge, t' t, of the blade opposite to b, from g to h, is straight be' low, as at z', but spreads out laterally and upwardly in a curvilinear direction, as at i, and is beveled on its under surface, as at e2, to give asharp or cutting edge joining the beveled The whole blade is secured to the standard C by screw-bolts m m', arranged one above the other, and having nuts nu on the under or back side of the standard. The one of these bolts, m, rests in a countersunk seat formed by the side walls of an oblongslot, o, running in direction of the width of the plate, to provide for a' lateral adjustment of the' latter from a fixed center or pivot formed by the bolt m'.

The blade, as it will be seen, has its edges beveled from heel to point.

By means of the oblong hole o, bolt m, fitting therethrough, and the pivot or bolt m', upon which the blade is capable of being turned to adjust it laterally in opposite directions, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, the point end of the shovel may be adj usted to or from the plant and the operator be enabled to plow either close to the plant or away from it. The shovel or blade may b e used either with its straight side next to the plant, as it is designed todo when the plant is small and needs the earth stirred close to it, but requires little or no earth to be thrown toward the plant, or the shovel may be turned and its opposite or curved edge be presented to the plant, as it is designed to do when the plant needs the earth thrown to or toward it and the roots left undisturbed. By this reverse action of the plow thereis much economy, the one shovel answering the purpose of two. Of course the point of the plow is always in front; but the shovel being beveled from heel to point, and being laterally adjustable, as described, it always forms or presents an efficient cuttingfsurface, for when the point end of the shovel is in the ground, and the curved side or edge of the shovel istoward the plant, the surface of the ground may be scraped and weeds be easily cut. Again, by reason of the sharp edges of the shovel from heel to point, it can be more readily shifted while in the ground, as there will always beasharp edge to cut its way, and

vhence it can be more easily managed than if the side edges of the shovel were square and IOO blunt.

Furthermore, the rounded surface or edge Z above the sharp curved edge Z protects the plant from injury, for when the corn or plant of any kind is large, and the plow happens to strike it, said rounded surface will leave the plant uninjured, whereas a square side would cut the plant and damage it.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The herein-described tongue and shovel, consisting of the apertnred and slotted blade A B, having the straight beveled edge b, an opposite partly straight and curved beveled edge, t' i', terminating in an upper blunt edge, Z, and the lower inclined and beveled front end edge, f, substantially as specified.

JAMES M. SANDERS.

Witnesses:

J. M. ToWNsEND, A.' T. SMITH. 

